Our Clergy

Metropolitan and Chairman of the Board of Trustees His Eminence The Most Reverend JOSEPH 

Bishop His Grace, the Right Reverend BASIL

Priest Father JOHN BALLARD

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and described in the New Testament.

The Church of Antioch is one of the five ancient Patriarchates, along with Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Rome. It was established by the Apostles Paul and Barnabas in 42 A.D., with St. Peter serving for the next eight years as its first bishop.

The word Orthodox literally means 'straight teaching' or 'straight worship,' being derived from two Greek words: orthos, 'straight,' and doxa, 'teach­ing' or 'worship.'"

We are in full communion with our brothers and sisters in other Orthodox Christian jurisdictions. ​​

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Fr. John Ballard joined us in July 2019 after serving in the Houston area and in Waco, Ohio, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of TCU and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.

​He and Presbytera Rebecca, a neonatologist, have two sons, Max and Evan. ​

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What We Believe

The Nicene Creed:

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages. Light of Light; true God of true God; begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man.

And He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried. And the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead; whose Kingdom shall have no end. 
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And [we believe] in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. In one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.